Port Lockroy Antarctica
Cruise Port

Location:

Sightseeing:

Passing between the soaring cliffs of the breathtaking Neumayer
Channel, arrive at one of Antarctica's most exciting anchorages: Port
Lockroy (also Rothera). The harbor is on the west side of Wiencke
Island. Port Lockroy's sheltered harbor, surrounded by high mountains,
was a favourite anchorage for whaling ships earlier in the century
- the many great bones on the shore act as a grim memorial. It is here
that Winston Churchill established a survey and weather station during
World War II to protect British interests in the Southern Ocean, and
it is the location today of the tiny UK Antarctic Heritage Trust. Now
designated an historic site, Port Lockroy is a museum and post office.
Proceeds from the facility support the preservation of historic sites
from the Heroic Age of Exploration.You will also find blue-eyed shags
(cormorants) nesting here.